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. E. KOHLER.

CHECK REIN HOOK.

Patented Sept. 1

WITNESSES IAVEJVTOR hereinafter set forth, by which a complete and UNrrE STATES ELIAS KOHLER, OF YORK, PENNSYLVANIA.

CHECK-REIN HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,612, dated September 1, 1885.

Application filed March :24, 1885.

.To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELL-is KOHLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at York, in the county of York and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improve merits in Check-Rein Hooks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in check-rein hooks, and is designed to produce a device whereby the check-rein may be readily secured or detached, and yet absolutely preventing the said rein from being accidentally disengaged. Further, it is designed to provide a means for attaching a terret to the hook.

The improvement consists, essentially, in the devices accomplishing the above-named objects, and also in the combination of parts perfect operatinghook is produced as an entirety.

In describing the device reference is had to the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view, and Fig. 2 a side elevation with the terret removed somewhat from its seating.

A bed-plate, A, rests on the saddle of a harness, and is secured thereto by a bolt.

On one end of the plate is raised a post or standard, B, having a socket, G, formed on its upper end.

Within the socket rests normally the shank D of a terret, E, a set or thumb screw, F, in the socket resting in an indent or recess, G, in the shank D. By this means the terret is readily attached or detached, according to whether it is desirable to use it or not.

The standard B has a slotor recess at its base, which receives a loop or enlargement on a spring, H, which has a downward continuation inserted in the bed-plate and an upward continuation curved away from the standard and then toward it, finally passing into the 1 said standard at or below the socket. This is the preferable mode of forming the spring.

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At the other end of the bed-plate is raised a post, I, shorter than the one B, and carrying an extension, K,which may be formed integral with it, the free end projecting toward the standard B and terminating in an upward turn or curve, L. The face of this curve or hook is not continuous, but broken by an angle, M, against which the spring H rests, a slight recess preventing lateral motion.

A roller, N, resting between the extension K and the bed'plate, forms an antifriction bearing for the check-rein.

On what is properly the rear of the bed plate is a crnpper-loop, O.

The shape of the curve or hook L is such as to facilitate both the insertion and removal of the cheek-rein, while the spring absolutely prevents accidental disengagement.

I claim- 1. In a checkrein book, a spring bearing against the hook proper, said hook having one end insertedin the bed-plate, the otherguidcd in a standard erected on the said plate, and having a loop or enlargement resting in a recess in said standard, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. A check-rein hook provided with a standard or post having a socket, and a terret having a shank normally retained in said socket and removable, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. As an article of manufacture, a checkrein hook consisting of a hook proper having a friction-roller, a spring normally closing the mouth of the hook, a crupper-loop at the rear, and a standard containing a removable terret, all arranged substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whercof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Elil A S KOHLER.

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CHAS. D. DAVIS, EDWIN L. Ynwcm. 

